Motivation

Motivate means to stimulate to action, provide with an incentive or motive. The 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Edition does have the word motivate or motivation. The word thus is fairly new but very important. It is just like microwaves didn’t exist until some 50 years ago. Later on internet, cell phones, CDs, Flash drives, MP3s, iphone, ipad, and so on. Today, we act as though these gadgets have always been here; there is no going backwards. That is how technology influences the human brain. We typically have insatiable craving for the use of these items. When they fade out or go bad, we just replenish them.
How about motivation? It fades away with time just like our favorite meal does after eating. The open secret is that it works exactly like the technology gadgets mentioned above. We have to continually keep ourselves motivated by consuming motivational material: audio or visual tapes, books, magazines, and use mentors as well as attend motivational workshops and conferences. By the way, when we are motivated we are more productive and it is our production that gives us the means and ways to acquire technological gadgets that make life easy and convenient to us.
It is like our clothes, it is like food, it is like toothpaste, it is like bathing soap… when any of these items are out, we have to replenish it and life continues.
Motivation raises the specter of hope and achievement. It brings the spirit of confidence home and rekindles the thirst to drive our self and autopilot our dream-craft. Motivation overshadows the ghost of fear, discouragement, hopelessness and serves as the enemy to the naysayers.